Anyone own an obscure gadget/ tool that just never caught on ?

Hickory n steel · Jul 3, 2016

I've got this old durapro pocketpro that my dad gave me, it's kinda cool and works pretty well.
But nobody would ever carry one of these on their belt.

00ChevyScott · Jul 4, 2016

Who could forget the famous Cue Cat of the 1990s?....

Grubbster · Jul 4, 2016

No picture, but Zune, damn Microsoft!

Charlie_K · Jul 4, 2016

Does common sense count?

JohnnyMayhem · Jul 4, 2016

I gotta dig it out of the toolbox and get some pictures, but it is a pocket sized socket wrench that accepts 1/4ths inch sockets. (The handle telescopes out a small distance for some more leverage. kind of neat.)

The Zieg · Jul 4, 2016

I think the Victorinox combination compass/thermometer/magnifier/ruler never did well. Mine is a useless chunk of plastic that misreads the temperature and fails to point North. But it looks cool.

Zieg

Bruceter · Jul 4, 2016

I gave this to my Dad years ago, don't think he ever used it.

Bruceter

Bryan J · Jul 4, 2016

Hickory n steel said:
I've got this old durapro pocketpro that my dad gave me, it's kinda cool and works pretty well.
But nobody would ever carry one of these on their belt.

Wow, I have that same tool, a gift from my grandmother many years ago. It's made pretty well and has decent quality parts. I still use it!

Slabwax · Jul 4, 2016

I bought a Apple Newton when they first came out. I just gave it to me brother-in-law a year ago. Better his closet than mine.

ThePeacent · Jul 4, 2016

Just the model I'm looking for, the last I need to buy to complete my collection !

I have the other 2.

Great tools.

Won't you happen to have a spare one and want to get rid of it, right?

Hickory n steel · Jul 5, 2016

I should get a picture of it, but I've also got a durapro snake driver and a spec tools skew driver .
BTW I keep the pocket pro in my ag shooting kit ( m139 ammo can with essentials in it )
For the hammer so I can drift my sights...ect.
Not a bad tool but not edc friendly.

mugwump867 · Jul 6, 2016

00ChevyScott said:
Who could forget the famous Cue Cat of the 1990s?....

Ah yes, got one free from Radio Shack and hacked it to scan barcodes from my DVD collection into an Access database. That entire sentence reeks of the 90s.

Iron City · Jul 11, 2016

Got a Betamax for sale.... was looking through my desk and my Palm Pilot had a short life span.

Ebbtide · Jul 11, 2016

I have one of these

It gets better

sticknstring73 · Jul 11, 2016

Ebbtide said:
I have one of these

It gets better

I know it's for soft boiled eggs but I want to make a circumcision joke so badly.

M67 · Jul 11, 2016

Grubbster said:
No picture, but Zune, damn Microsoft!

Ha, yeah, got one of those myself, have had 2 actually. Liked the software better than Apple so went the Zune route

Jens Schuetz · Jul 11, 2016

sticknstring73 said:
I know it's for soft boiled eggs but I want to make a circumcision joke so badly.

"Eggs" are what balls are called in some languages.
Soft boiled makes it even worse. :-o

Anyways no matter what they are designed for, show a few of them at Guantanamo and I'm sure there'll be more useful information being spilled than by water boarding.

Grouch · Jul 11, 2016

Ebbtide said:
I have one of these

It gets better

Note: Never, I mean NEVER, go on a date with a woman that carries one of these in her purse.

Bob W · Jul 12, 2016

I still have a Huffy Aerowind in the garage, a bicycle designed with oval-shaped frame bars.

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Ebbtide · Jul 12, 2016

Impressed someone knew what it is for...
As for the jokes...
That's why I put the pics up